Why hasn't Sikhi spread? St Georges uni Q&A #1

History - obviously everything
has a reason

History is one of the major reasons.

Guru Nanak Dev Ji Maharaj
they came with a message.

They spread it.
There was no sikhi before them.

There were people that were talking
philosophies that were similar to this.

But it wasn't a holistic approach like
Guru Ji bought.

They spread it.

All the Gurus’ spread it.

Guru Amar Das Ji set up 150 preachers -
52 were women.

They sent women out
to preach Sikhi.

Their daughters were preachers.

So the Gurus are very big preachers.

Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji went out preaching to
Assam - places far far away from Central

Look at Patna Sahib, it's not near Punjab.

Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji set that up

Hazur Sahib - Guru Gobind Singh Ji
set that up around that area

as a place for loads for Sikhs
at Patna Sahib

So, the Guru’s all travelled.
They went out spreading Sikhi

And they sent people out to Afghanistan
and places like that to spread Sikhi.

Now, what’s happened since 1745,
The 1740s, is -

Baba Deep Singh Ji for example, they
wrote out Guru Granth Sahib Ji in Arabic.

They sent It out -
they were keen to preach Sikhi.

Sikhs didn’t used to say we don’t preach.

Now what’s happened is, most of us say
"we don’t preach”.

Do you agree with that?

Nowadays most Sikhs say
“we don’t preach”.

Who do you think told us
we don’t preach?

Our Gurus’ never said it.
The Guru’s actually went out to preach.

They travelled everywhere.

Guru Ji went to Sri Lanka.
They went all over.

So who told us that we don’t preach?

The British.

The British came to Punjab.
Took over the Punjab Kingdom in 1850s.

So from 1745, from the Guru’s time -

what you see from 1708 is the Sikhs’
being persecuted.

And even when they’re persecuted
they’re still bringing it up.

So for the next 100 years -

Let’s say you go upto from 1400s to 1700.

It’s the Guru Period.
Sikhi is growing, it’s great.

For the next 100 years upto 1800
you have got persecution.

Sikhs being killed everywhere.

1900s - what you’ve got is the
British coming over in the

In the 1850s, they took over
and what did they do?

They started to destroy Sikhi.

They started to kill all the Nihang Singhs
- as many as they could.

That believed in the
ShastarDhari Khalsa way.

They killed a lot of them.

They fought against them and
they killed them.

Also, they started to preach Christianity.

And they told us lot -
like a Jedi mind trick

Have you seen Star Wars?

Where he goes
“these are not the droids you seek”.

They go
“these are not the droids that we seek”.

It's a Jedi mind trick. They say
“you guys, don’t preach your religion”.

And we went
"we don't preach our religion”.

And that was it.
It became a Punjabi religion.

It no longer became an Indian religion,
spreading out in the whole of India.

It became a Punjabi religion.

The British made us into Punjabis.

They moved us away from Sikhi
into Punjabis.

They said you guys all live in Punjab,
you guys have got your geography.

Because the British were very good
at categorizing what people were

And then you got votes based upon who
you were.

So they were like "you guys are Hindus,
you guys are Sikhs"

You don’t want to spread out here -

and take over the Hindus
or become bigger.

You stay where you are - Punjab.

Basically the British told us
we don’t preach.

So one of the biggest things -

For the last, since 1850 when they
took over Ranjit Singh's Raj (Rule),

then they said
"you guys join the British army"

Become Sikhs in the Army, so now
we got institutionalised.

Took Amrit but we follow the British way.

The British said "you guys are warriors”
we said “yes we’re warriors”.

We had Mahapurkhs and Sanths,
but they said you guys are warrior race,

so we started believing
we're a warrior race.

But we’re not a race.

We’re a Dharam.

Punjabis might be a race.
We are not a race.

We are people that follow the philosophy
of Guru Nanak Dev Ji Maharaj.

The teachings of Guru Nanak Dev Ji.

We are a Chela.
We are Chele of the Guru.

We are not a race.

We have characteristics, we have a culture
that comes from our Gurus.

But anybody can join -
you can’t change a race can you?

You can now if you become a Sikh.
It’s a weird system.

Anyway the point is that Sikhi was
constricted by them

and limited off to one place.

Then since India Independence
you've seen what's happened in Punjab.

The race thinking was stuck there,
people thought we’re Punjabis.

And then Indian people when they
got independence,

they messed the Sikhs over.

Took away the land and then split Punjab.

Punjab used to look a bit
like a butterfly.

Now guess how much of it remains.
First they chopped off

First they chopped off two wings.

Then from this wing they chopped off
here and there.

Now you got this much -
like the left hand side.

Even Lahore, the Capital of the Sikh
Kingdom in Ranjit Singh’s time -

is now in Pakistan.

Ranjit Singh’s Raj was in Lahore.

Amritsar was a Spiritual Capital for us.
It was the Sikh Capital.

But not the Political Kingdom of the Raj.

So they're basically massively split and
since 1984 you’ve seen what’s happened.

Sikhs are basically - th.ey’re trying to
kill Sikhi off in Punjab

trying to kill sik off in

Punjab so firstly we've had external

enemies of suppressing us and also

internally our thinking has gotten

changed they changed our thinking to not

think that we are an expansionist

religion yeah but gurusa was very

expansionist you don't appoint 150

preachers if you don't exp tend to

expand you don't said p g you have to

havean to Afghanistan to preach if you

don't want to bring in people from

Afghanistan into

siki guruji did that

yeah and then look around us what are we

doing us lot us British seeks the

Bastion of siki in the world we really

doing great stuff here in our G aren't

we the youth don't understand s

committees are too involved and fighting

amongst themselves every G being a bring

build an even bigger G than teach

classes you can go to G nowadays and you

will have like amazing Hall stained

glass windows amazing wooden

architecture you can't find a

classroom you're like hold on you say

Guru is my teacher you say the sick is a

student where's the

classes how many of you guys can go to

your local Gara and sign up for a course

on

siki say a 6 week course 12 week course

can you sign up for one how many of you

think you can sign up for one of those

in a

mosque how many institutions you think

exist in this country to teach Islam to

newcomers quite a lot yeah how many

thing exist to teach siki to a

newcomer very little

nothing people are white who are seek

people are black who are seek but they

are only through luck

no none of them ever got approached by

someone and said hey man you should be a

seek you got the right

mentality we never

approach goes around travel looking

for and we are scared to follow

ourselves we're not those kind of people

that walk around saying the praise of

our

doctor those doctor is good if you go to

a doctor in the world and he fixes you

up 100% if you meet somebody else who's

got the same disease as you you're going

to tell that person go to that

doctor aren't you of course you will we

don't believe in our doctor Lo the time

we don't follow our doctor we find it

very hard to go and tell other people to

follow this

doctor but if we really cared about that

person that they are diseased and they

have got as a

disease what's the solution

then

you will earn the guru's words the

guru's bani what does it mean to earn B

it means to live

it got the instructions now you follow

them so we don't really believe in

spreading this

either in this class most of you guys

know right no noing you obviously who

are you to blame in it who's to blame

our leadership our leaders who say that

we are the caretakers of the guru school

cuz the guru is a teacher and they it

must be a school we they said the school

caretakers and guess who runs a school

not a not a head teacher the only person

worthy of running a school is a head

teacher you agree with me would you put

the administrators in charge of a head

of of a school no who should run a

school somebody who's worked on the

ground all the way up to become a

teacher a head

teacher who's concern about teaching how

many people in G seen their pans do

talks about

siki how many pans on a regular basis

come into the gur and teach siki to the

S how many of them are involved in

running Charities or save our

projects so how come they run a

gari the administrators have got into

the G start R the

G admin people what do you think are

secretaries

admin

person president is not a

president yeah he's the main person who

runs all the admin

people the real people who run a gurara

are the people that are either teaching

Kon or singing Kon or reading the part

explain the part or making the lunger or

doing all the dishes and cleaning or

washing up they the people that make the

G run these people that sit up in an

office somewhere they don't make the G

run they're the admin people

now the admin people on the G so we got

the tail waging the dog you heard that

solution that thing before these they're

supposed to be waged by the dog but

unfortunately they are wagging the

dog they tell the party the party who

knows more part than them they tell

him this guy knows more B than all those

people sitting on the table and he's

bringing them Cups of

Tea

you can see what's happening now so it's

our fault as well it's G completely

messed up we're not doing anything

ourselves and it's on you guys I'm sorry

to put it on you because I see it's upon

me as well but I don't see myself as

different from you guys the only

difference me me you about 10 years

that's nothing really right I see you

guys having the same responsibility that

I

have learn some of this knowledge I

didn't get this from Magic it isn't not

that hard 13 years ago I didn't know I

didn't understand a single bit

of years from now here you could be

teaching people across the globe as

well or can he come M makes everything

very easy sik is easy to follow and live

or key and simple as well yeah it's both

can't be classified to

key it's on your responsibility as well

if you see a problem solve it we saw a

problem no one knew what he was we made

those leaflets yeah goining sitting here

did all the graphic design done the

words made it

up could have put anything in there

really nothing's complicated in there by

the way one God one human race you can

connect to

God

traveled made a MOS gave that's just

Basics a it and that's why it's called

Basics yeah people don't know the

basics have l

gur job done go on YouTube and learn

more you see a problem in this house of

g g try to fix a problem don't they say

how come siki is not spread say how can

I spread siki yeah and it's not that

hard people buy siki we've had people

become siks would you believe it white

and black people started watching these

videos and they go I want to be a seek

how do I become a seek we people

messages and say I want to be a

seek I read that email out to you

recently some guy from California

emailed us y i watch your videos man I

want to be a seek he was amazing he

changed my life now I didn't change his

life did I who am I to change anybody's

life he changed my life I'm plugging the

doctor I'm

saying yeah and they say I want to have

that doctor as well that's what is

happening here people are coming on and

saying I want to have that guy is my

doctor I think he can fix me and he can

fix

them but this just just just one channel

how many channels do you think exist to

preach

Islam how many channels do you think

exist to preach

Christianity the major religions let's

look at the major religions how many of

the the Zen um Buddhist people who are

how they travel around the world meeting

all the top leaders yeah Buddhist is a

big religion as well they got a billion

of them how many thousand years did it

take them we only been around for 500

years most of that has been under

conflict and where we are now we're not

teaching the meaning of it to most

people our g r by the wrong people if we

change that around the next 100 years

siki would

fly change the leadership into people

that follow

siki make the focus about spreading and

explaining sec to everybody else like we

do stre parar have you seen those videos

about Street yeah do that in every city

every town have open days bring people

in invite them teach them about the

meaning explain it to Simply like this

this is your disease Mister this is

where you miss you're going to this is

the problem you're suffering the real

root cause is this hom and you will be

able to solve this if you connect to God

you have this on top of your head let's

meditate why don't you do some Savor

have some go serve some food to some

people you feel better about

yourself you feel good if you do savor

they do this they do this and they go

you know what siki really works I feel

connected to God I feel like I'm a

better person I'm starting to lose my

connection and when I say I feel great I

feel

blessed the won't be it won't be the

bottom of someone's shoe like it is

now it will rule the

world

who

will question is and the question

is we

say

will but do we even know what the Kaa is

this is what the Kaa starts off with a

diseased person that wants to get better

goes to the guru and says sort me

out make me like you make me free of

this

disease it's

uh it's history it's our problem and the

solution is there as well how to solve

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